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Order Number	00078353
Title	Young patient at the Orthopedic Hospital, view 1
Collection ID	Eyre Powell Chamber of Commerce Collection
Location/Accession	N-004-552.1 4x5
Date	Circa 1922
Physical Description	1 photographic print :b&w ;11 x 14 cm. on sheet 21 x 26 cm.
Notes	Title supplied by cataloger.
Historical Data	The Orthopedic Hospital, founded by Charles LeRoy Lowman in 1911, began as a clinic for children with crippling disorders and was originally located on Figueroa Street. In 1922, the first hospital was completed (partially pictured here), and was located on Ord Street; it was replaced 37 years later, in 1959, with a second, larger hospital that was located at 2400 S. Flower Street. When Dr. Lowman established this hospital, he was the only orthopedic specialist (also sp. "orthopaedic) between San Francisco to New Orleans, and due to the fact that the field was so new, he invented many treatments himself. One of these 'inventions' was to turn a fishpond on the Orthopedic Hospital grounds into a therapy pool for children with polio - two years before Franklin D. Roosevelt, a polio sufferer, discovered the 88-degree waters at Warm Springs, Georgia. Since then, the orthopaedic program has dramatically grown to the point where the Los Angeles Orthopaedic Hospital (as it is now named) sees more children with potentially crippling disorders than any other facility in the United States, and a third, yet larger hospital, is currently under construction.
Description	View 1: A nurse helps a child with her water exercises in the wading pool at the Ord St. Orthopedic Hospital. The nurse, wearing chest waders and a white short-sleeved blouse, leans against a sloping cement ramp, which the child rests on to keep her afloat as she does her therapy.
Publisher	Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce.
Subject	Orthopaedic Hospital. Manipulation (Therapeutics)--California--Los Angeles. Orthopedic hospitals--California--Los Angeles. Health facilities--California--Los Angeles. Orthopedics--California--Los Angeles. Hospitals--California--Los Angeles. Children--California--Los Angeles. Nurses--California--Los Angeles. Pools--California--Los Angeles. Lowman, Charles Leroy,1879-
Format	Photographic prints
Reproduction Information	Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Sub-Collection Name	Eyre Powell Chamber of Commerce Photo Collection